Iggy Pop

Released: October 23, 1986

Songwriter: David Bowie Iggy Pop

Producer: David Bowie David Richards

[Verse 1]
Pop before the war
Lunch before the score
Steady as she goes
Following my nose
I'm a bull mongrel
That's me
Baby that's me
Shimon Peres
What are you going to do?
I'm from Detroit
Blow the reveille
Deatho Knocko
That's me, little old me
Glamorous me

[Chorus]
Johnny can't read
Blah blah blah
I'can't see
Blah blah blah
Tuna on white
Guns all night
Blah blah blah

[Verse 2]
Cat taboo girl
Raped by an ape
Cat taboo girl
Jam the sucker in
You dig the mongrels
Guardian of the state
Says you got to go
Bombing low
Senator Rambo
Merrily you go
Monkey butcher knows
A cab to find a bank
A bank to find a loan
Because you can't be alone
You dig the mongrels
That's you that's you
Violent peace
Blah blah blah
Buy it right now
Blah blah blah
We are the world
We are so huge
Blah blah blah

[Chorus]
Johnny can't read
Blah blah blah
I'can't see
Blah blah blah
Tuna on white
Guns all night
Blah blah blah

[Verse 3]
Blue jeans coolies
Everything huge
Petrified food
Pizza killers
From napalm to nice guy
Hit them where they live
Nifty fifty
The ranks of the glamorous change constantly
The most spoiled brats
On God's green Earth
Pop before the war

After his previous band, The Stooges collapsed, Iggy Pop (the stage name of James Newell Osterberg, Jr.) initially struggled to establish a solo career. Working with David Bowie in Berlin helped him produce The Idiot and Lust For Life, essential albums which made him a household name.

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